One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of
Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is
also one of the most mysterious. Gregory McIntosh has uncovered new
evidence in the map that shows it to be among the most important ever
made.
This detailed study offers new commentary and explication
of a major milestone in cartography. Correcting earlier work of Paul
Kahle and pointing out the traps that have caught subsequent scholars,
McIntosh disproves the dubious conclusion that the Reis map embodied
Columbus's Third Voyage map of 1498, showing that it draws instead on
the Second Voyage of 1493-1496. He also refutes the popular
misinterpretation that Reis's depictions of Antarctica are evidence of
either ancient civilizations or extraterrestrial visitation. McIntosh
brings together all that has been previously known about the map and
also assembles for the first time the translations of all inscriptions
on the map and analyzes all place-names given for New World and Atlantic
islands. His work clarifies long-standing mysteries and opens up new
ways of looking at the history of exploration.
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